[New-bugs-announce] [issue8556] Confusing string formatting examples

[Jeff McNeil]

New submission from Jeff McNeil <jeff at jmcneil.net>:

I was going through the string formatting examples this evening and noticed this:

print '%(language)s has %(#)03d quote types.' % \
          {'language': "Python", "#": 2}


The example uses a '#' as a map key. This is somewhat misleading as if we had simply left the parenthesis off, the '#' would have been interpreted as an alternate conversion flag. Should be updated to use a more verbose (and less confusing) dictionary key.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
files: stdtypes.rst.2.6.5.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 104410
nosy: docs at python, mcjeff
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Confusing string formatting examples
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17115/stdtypes.rst.2.6.5.patch

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